This was the seventy-third day since Gu Shen had regained consciousness.
In the depths of the Frozen Sea, there was no sunrise or moonset, only surging tides. Endless darkness swallowed this tiny Longevity Stone Wall. Perhaps because countless beast spirits from Sang Continent Grotto had thrown themselves into the volcano one after another, the formation inscriptions had absorbed considerable life energy and become exceptionally sturdy. It had not only withstood the volcanic eruption, but also the corrosion of deep-sea currents...
But that did nothing to change Gu Shen's predicament.
Time had lost all meaning here.
Yet Gu Shen did not give up. He had begun keeping track from the day he regained consciousness.
He separated a wisp of Blazing Fire and placed it in the Purified Land, using it to count the passage of every minute and second.
If he truly lost "time," then there would be little difference between being alive and being dead.
"The price of the Third Transcendent Realm is simply too great."
Through meditation, Gu Shen arrived at his Heart Lake. His Soul Spirit condensed into a tiny figure standing before the lake, gazing into the distance as he took a deep breath.
The scale of this Mental Sea was simply too vast.
An ordinary Ninth Layer Deep Sea transcendent's Mental Sea was probably only one-twentieth the size of this one!
Even among fourth-tier powerhouses, this Mental Sea would be considered top-tier!
The Third Transcendent Realm had given Gu Shen top-tier fourth-tier spiritual power while he was still at the Ninth Layer of the Deep Sea, but it had also made his path toward further breakthroughs incomparably difficult...
The more transcendences one underwent, the stronger the breakthrough—and the harder it became!
"If I hadn't killed Xiao, I would have needed to increase my Blazing Fire first,